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COAL-CINDEItS AS DRAINAGE EOIt POTS. 
getlier in a pot as is usually done. The soil used was one half rich 
loam, with one-fourth rotten dung, and one-fourth leaf-mould, both 
well decomposed and mixed up together with the loam. The pots 
were well drained, and a layer of the siftings of the dung and leaf- 
mould was put over the drainings. Of the smaller sorts of bulbs, I 
put only two or three in a forty-eight sized pot; of the larger only 
one in a pot of the same size; and of the largest only one in a thirty- 
two sized pot. During their growth ; and particularly when near 
flowering, the bulbs were liberally supplied with water. Under this 
mode of treatment, my desires were fully realised, and my bulbs 
produced fine flowers, far superior to any others that T have ever seen 
grown in pots .—Gardeners Magazine. 
ARTICLE XIV.—COAL-CINDERS AS DRAINAGE FOR POTS. 
BY MR. II. TURNER, 
Curator of the Botanic Garden, Bury St . Edmonds. 
Early in May, 1833, I potted the following twenty species of 
plants, using cinders instead of potsherds. The plants being 
duly marked, were placed among others in the collection, and they 
received the same attention as the other plants, which were drained 
in the usual manner. In the beginning of October, I examined the 
plants drained with coal-cinders, and found them in the following 
state: — 
Number and Names of the Plants. 
State in 
which they 
were found. 
Dead. 
Sickly. 
Healthy. 
4 Delphinium sinense. 
. 3 . 
.... 1 ... 
. 0 
2 Cirsium afrum.. 
. 2 . 
.... 0 ... 
. 0 
4 Silene maritima. 
. 2 . 
.... 1 ... 
. 1 
2 Silene maritima flore-pleno;.... 
. 2 . 
. 0 ... 
. 0 
2 Soldanella alpina. 
. 2 . 
.... 0 ... 
. 0 
4 Papaver orientale. 
. 1 
2 Lythrum alatum. 
. 0 . 
.... 0 ... 
. 2 
2 Ervthrolcena conspicua. 
. 2 . 
.... 0 ... 
. 0 
2 Erigeron glabellus. 
. 1 . 
.... 1 ... 
. 0 
2 - purpureus. 
. 1 . 
.... 1 ... 
. 0 
2 Phlox tardiflora. 
. 2 . 
.... 0 ... 
. 0 
2 ... crassi folia. 
. 1 . 
.... 1 . . 
. 0 
4 ... lubulata. 
. 0 . 
.... 1 ... 
. 3 
2 (Enothera macroearpa. 
2 
.... 0 ... 
2 - missouriensis. 
o 
.... o ... 
. 0 
